tagged by ilia. a hard look at the books in my life

1. 1. You're stuck inside Farenheit 451. What book do you want to be?
A Roland Barthes book, right now The Empire of Signs, because I'm rereading it

2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Wow, none. Makes me think that a face and a voice needs to be there.

3. The last books you bought were:
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, A Book of Dreams by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo and When the Elephants Dance by Tess Urriza Holthe

4. The last books given to you were:
(more of pinabili) Ecrits by Jacques Lacan, The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard, On Touching and On Hospitality both by Jacques Derrida, all from my sister Agnes and The Real Rule of Four by Joscelyn Godwin from Pooching

5. Three books that would have made more of a difference in life had I read them years earlier:
(well, hindi rin because i half-believe that certain books come to you at certain parts of your life, but anyway) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

6. Three books I borrowed and don't want to return anymore:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess from Cat (hindi ko pa tapos), I Seem to be a Verb by Buckminster Fuller from Dennis and The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir from Thea

7. Three books I wanted to like more:
(and by 'want to like more' i mean i'm still convincing myself why I opened the book in the first place) A Book of Dreams by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (!), On Touching by Jacques Derrida (I try, man, I try) and The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (it's just not moving)

8. Three books I pretended to have read:
the usual suspects - Ulysses by James Joyce, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (I did start reading it but got lost) and The Bible (hanggang comics version lang ako)

9. Three books I am happy I bought last year:
Five Plays Vol. 1 by Jean Anouilh (dahil madalang makakita nito sa book sales and it was for Ilia), When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe (because it showed a perspective of the Japanese Occupation I didn't find in my parents' stories) and Kiko Machine Vol. 1 (for Joffin)

10. Three books I wish I had written:
(tough call) The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning by Jonathan Safran Foer, a three-way tie among A Lover's Discourse, Camera Lucida and The Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (so that makes them six)

Not tagging anybody :)